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feature ei Explosives, ofwwhich the following is e specification.

" My present inventiou consists in a novel set forth and claimed, the invention talii e aeid,ei1d by 'a'm'trete er nitrates of the powerfulezrglosives 01 great teehmea-l STEPHEN, H. EMMENS, OF L srucnuesrms: forming part of Letters Pateht No. 422,515, 'dat Application filed Harch30,1889. Serial No. 305,445 (No specimeils.)

29 all whom it may Be it known that I, msns a subject of the and lrelend, and e Esgland temporarily in the new and usefullmpro precess hereinafter- ;ind is additional to te meJanuery 1051888 by United- 7 ters Peteszt T530 376,145 r the preseht inventien is the improved type or class of flheehjeet of production of an detoneiing explosive com'pouu base or main elemeut t emupuumi jgl'fidllfih of seeeflieation forming States Letter'sPetent discovered earths,

utility endvalhe' iney be eration be ineantiously conducted, and the temperature;heellowed-to rise above a eh miesr p e-,- nitrous gas, thereby lessenpower of the substance. It

i e ipneo t 0f the acid takes sidereble loss of ing the explosive therefore becomes a, m

lower the fusionpoint, covered,leen-be efiecte ellid nitrb hydroearbons with the said new i foundfniost Suitable crystalline. 3 11a,. Th

the so-eelled piorie' ac gin to fuse at a temp grade or under. The substances here named are practieally'the equi new acid admixtures l! fitete 0f New'Yerlr have inveutede or crystalline acid inafter termed, crystallized from the eigtion of heated fum :aeiden pierio'aoid in excess, setforth ininy' thatlby fusing the said erys for, this purpose are tri uitrocresylicaoid, dinitroxylene, dinit-ronaphthale e, dinitrobenzinwand lat is to say,.they all erses h stories MAN ushers es es sirerosavss.

ature lower-than 11 6 of etXplosiouwhen in of elkalies or alkaline STEPHEN HENRY EM Queen of Great Brit resident of London in sesidihg Harrison; ssomewhat with hydrocarbon; b portion may its enty per cent.

Yemeni. in the Menuelf ran ring either the fu plosive' capability of patented States Letdesired' from a; oxidizethe earl) the conditieri other?) about fifty per eehtgiii to oxidize shelr ca/I' on'iu v (1s hevi ges a; he new crystalline ec-idj as it is herethe liquid iug nitric cess as epplie'dito the explosiye compound part of said-United No. 376,145. I have ding to such fusedecid elkelies or alkaline and forms 'azelee-r zine -without, .e ny

formed.- If, howdecomposition andtliere is it 0011 when it forms which. may be may be loaded into litter of importenceio a high explosive, 1n

and this, I vhave disd by an admixture of arywithalls suehsa'mples of i id of eommereees heeradture of 116 centivalents of each othernew crystalline acid form with the said aving a fusion temperzine, incorporating a The fusion-point ,of the the pi sziid new crystalline acid to ut I have found that such ge from twenty'to without ihjuriously aifeot sion temperature or the ex-' the ad As a practical example of 'm explosive compounds, new crystalline acid patented'toime January 10, 1888, which process consists in by'heet in the presence of zrn allied nibble-hydrocarbon, as .dinitrobenpulverized oxidant with FICE.

w en, ENGLA ND.

ed March 4, 1890.

chtigrade, and capable 15b corporated with nitrates earths.

admixture varies oportion boruelby the v the added 'nitro' '55 pro sevamount of nitrate added may also vary, ac

cording to the partieular grade of! explosive quentityeboutv suflieientto the said lcomfiomid to oniebiride to en annou lrtf.

e c sbtt a u eient' on 'to carbonic acid."

y PI'GSGIIZt ijr production of gp i I y 1 119 the, follow 7e oentigrade', I

zine, 'j

the dinitrobem Y of soda, ri'na. finelyo' The mix f wed to -co0l,--' omogeneous mass, or granulated, and-'., cartridges for 11se"as '85 combination with suit I able detonating caps 1? Primers, as is eustom} ueh bodies.

eving thus described the m as my invention and (1 under this speoification 11 The Within-deserib said" process, I

ed process of making having. as a base the fusing said 9 5 esire to patent the liquid-eombustibieso produced, and than admixture the ewiiah 05. an ii'iiiefi.

permitting themixture to 0001, subsmntially as hereinbefore specified 2. In the Within-described process of mak- 5 ing explosive compound the new crystalline acid nary 1Q, 1888, the method of reducing the fus- 3, having as a base pateuteci to me Janion-point of suchacid', which consists in the drocarbon as diniuroiz-enzine, subsmm hereinbeiore specified.

VJitnessee:

SAMUEL B. 11.211141 1; 1:11.4 HUGE HENRY. 

